REJOICING: Praying And Praising!

Let's Investigate Rejoicing 

Aka Praying And Praising! 

Praying Lifts Us Up To Our Eternal God 

And

Praise In Song 

Is 

A Defence Against Despair And Discouragement! 

Satan The Damned Poisonously Hates Praying And Praising

And

For This Reason

And

The Fact That Our Dear Savior Asks Us To Pray Without Ceasing

And

To Offer Unfeigned Praise Over His Glorious Works And Eternal Majesty 

Is 

Why We Should Hungrily, Thirstily, Unfailingly Indulge! 

Within Praying Is A Pry Bar 

To Get Us Away From Sin

And

To Walk Wisely In The Gifted Free-To-All Salvation! 

Within Praising Is Raising

A Pin

And

A Ping! 

When The Sharp Pin Of 

Despondency, Despair, And Discouragement Dig Into You

And 

You Feel That Ping Of Hurt On Your Nerves

You Know That It Is Time 

To Start Raising Your Head, Heart, And Voice 

As You Bless God 

While Praising Him For Another Reason To Believe His Word

Trust His Promises

And 

To Damn That Satan 

By Working Your Day's Faith To A Nubbin ... And To Death! 

Beloved, 

Let Us Choose This Day To Look For Blessings

And 

For Reasons For Praying And Praising

And 

Let Us Bless Almighty God For Our Privilege

Our Invitation

To Boldly Approach The Throne Of Grace! 

PRAYER:

Thank You, Jesus, For The Purchased Peace! 

I Give You Thanks And Praise

For My Blessings Already Experienced 

And

Those Even Now On The Way!

AMEN!!!

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Life May Leave You With Nothing

But

With Jesus Christ

As Your Eternal Portion

You Will Have Everything!

HAPPY SABBATH + Almighty God's Silence Is Not Consent To Sin!

There Is An Old Expression Which States: 

"Don't Take My Kindness For Weakness!" 

There Is Also The Warning Which States: 

"Just Because I Have Not Challenged You

It Does Not Mean That I Do Not Know What You Are Doing!" 

Beloved, 

Both Of These Statements Are Based On Scripture 

And 

Should Make Us Think Carefully 

And 

Act Differently 

If

We Are Living Lives That Cause Offense! 

Just Because Comment Is Not Immediate 

Or Punishment Swift For Aggregious Behavior

It Does Not Mean That Others Are As We Are 

And 

We All Walk Together In Unity! 

The Lord Jesus Christ 

Is 

Long-Suffering Toward Us 

As It Is Not His Desire That Anyone Should Perish! 

Think Of It As Giving Us Time 

To Make All Wrong Things Right! 

The Lord Has Clearly Told Us That 

Our Thoughts And Our Ways 

Are Not His Thoughts Or His Ways: 

One Thing To Be Taken From This 

Is 

That Almighty God Sees And Knows Everything

His Judgment Is Sure

And

His Punishment For Wrong-Doing 

Is 

Guaranteed To Be Executed On The Day Appointed ... By Him! 

Dear Ones, 

Self-Inspection Through God's Magnifying Glass 

Which Is The Living, Holy, Word 

Is

An Unimpeachable Disclosing Agent 

But

We Need To Cooperate With Christ Through The Holy Spirit 

To Redirect Our Footsteps 

To The Path Of Purity, Goodness, Kindness, Truth, And Light 

If

We Desire To Avoid The Wrath To Come! 

Let Us Bless The Living God 

And 

Do Right 

Because 

It Is Right! 

And

Let Us Daringly Check Ourselves 

Before We Wreck Ourselves: 

There Is No Do-Over After Death! 

Live For The Lord Jesus Christ! 

Peace!

 

One Disorder, Three Lives, Three Outcomes!

If I Knock On Your Forehead

Will You Cheerfully Answer The Front Door!?! 

If The Answer Is Not An Emphatic "Yes!" 

What, May I Ask, Is Eating You!?! 

The Frontal Lobe Of The Brain Deals With 

Our Spirituality Aka Our Need To Worship

Our Morality Aka Our Chosen Behavior

And 

Our Will Aka To Do Or Not To Do Right, Wrong, Dicey Or Disgusting! 

The Holy Word Says That 

In The Presence Of Two Or Three Witnesses

A Matter Should Be Established: 

King Saul, King Solomon, And Prophet Elijah Were All Depressed

Suffering From Stinking Thinking! 

Instead Of Being Obedient And Walking With The Spirit Of Truth

King Saul Went Rogue 

And 

Ended Up Playing Footsie With That Lying Spirit, Satan

And 

Effectively, Efficiently, Offed Himself! 

King Solomon Disobediently Went After Many Pagan Wives And Concubines 

And 

Also Did What Many Of Us Are Doing Today 

Aka He Tried Every "Pleasure" Until Pleasure Was Pain! 

He Hated His Life 

And

Called Everything Vanity And Vexation Of Spirit! 

King Solomon Eventually Came To His Senses 

And 

Was Converted 

But 

Took The Scars With Him To His Grave! 

Elijah ... Almighty God's Faithful Prophet

Was Hunted Down Like A Wild Dog 

By The Blood-Thirsty Pagan Queen Jezebel: 

He Ran From Her 

And 

He Wanted To Die! 

The Lord Gave Prophet Elijah  A Work To Do 

And

At Its Completion 

He Was Picked Up In A Fiery Chariot 

And 

Carried To Heaven: 

He Never Tasted Death! 

One Disorder

         Three Lives

                Three Outcomes! 

Dear Ones,

Depressed Or Not

We Have Our Sacrosanct Will With Which To Bless God: 

Please Let Him Take Control Aka Have Master-Control

And 

You Shall Know, Enjoy, Experience His Perfect Peace! 

Dare To Be Like King David!

We Are Asking Our God To Create A Clean Heart Within Us 

Because 

Our Present Heart Is Dirty, Unclean! 

We Are Asking To Have A Renewed Right Spirit Placed Within Us 

Because 

We Have Been Operating With A Wrong, Ungodly, Spirit That 

Is 

Worn And Torn By An Ill-Spent Life! 

We Are Asking The Lord Not To Cast Us Away From His Presence

And 

Not To Take Away His Holy Spirit From Us 

Because 

Our Behavior Is So Egregious

Outrageous And Obnoxious, That 

It Is Offensive To The Holy One 

... And ... 

Warrants The Sternest Condemnation 

Which Is The Taking Away Of The Holy Spirit 

Who Grants Us Peace

And 

Blesses Us With Rest And Refreshing! 

Beloved, 

Never, Ever, Place Yourself Outside Of 

The Correcting, Checking, Guiding Influence Of 

The Lord God Almighty! 

King Saul Became Too Big For His Britches 

And 

He Paid The Ultimate Price 

Aka The Lord Rejected His Pleas For Comfort And Aid! 

Lacking The Secure Anchor For His Soul

Saul Visited The Accursed Witch At Endor

And 

After Playing On Satan's Enchanted Ground

He Finally Killed Himself 

Because 

He Had No Hope ... No Future! 

King Saul Had Maliciously Written 

And 

Arrogantly Starred In His Own Demon-Inspired Movie 

But 

Regretted His Own Prideful Performance 

In The Day Called Too Late! 

It Is Wise To Be Teachable: 

Humbly Accept Godly Correction

Confess Your Known Sin

And 

Bless God! 

Be As King David! 

Peace!

HAPPY SABBATH + GOD WITH US: God In Us!

Without Jesus Christ ... Immanuel

- God With Us -

We Have No Celebration 

Or Anything To Celebrate 

But

Because Jesus Christ Is, Indeed, With Us

And 

We Have His Holy Spirit In Us 

As A Gift

A Blessing

A Benefit

And 

The Holy Angels Around Us Protecting Us 

As They  Protected Him In His Earthly Sojourn

Let Us In Gratitude For Gifts Already Received 

And

Gifts Still On The Foot

On The Wing

And

On The Way

Dare To Bless Ourselves

Bless Others

And 

Bless Almighty God 

By Thoroughly Becoming Like Our Gracious King

Known Loving, Good, Kind

Giving And Forgiving! 

Let Our Celebrating Be Our Testimony 

Declaring True Thankfulness 

For The Greatest Gift That 

Man Has Ever Received

Or Will Ever Receive! 

Let's Celebrate Almighty God In Us

Our Hope For Glory

As We Pay Our Vows Of Obedience

Faithfulness, Gratitude 

And 

Thankfulness! 

Let's Really Celebrate Jesus Christ 

The Lord Who Is Truly Doing A Good Work In Us 

By His Gift To Us Of His Sweet And Holy Spirit! 

Let's Open Almighty God's Good And Perfect Gifts 

And

Thoroughly Use Them Daily 

To Show Our Dear And Celebrated Savior That 

Our Love For Him Is Not Just For Once A Year

Or Once A Day

But 

Is For All Day

Every Day

And

All Year Long! 

Welcome, Dear Redeemer 

Into Our Lives Committed Solely To Doing Your Will 

And 

Walking In Your Holy Way

This Day And Forever! 

Jesus

... Peace ...

Is

With Us!

Laudable Laughable Life And Times!

Speck vs Spot!
Mote vs Beam!

For The Payment Of A Groat
These Are The Life-Fight Matchups
AND
The Prize To The Winner

Is A Lil' Sail Boat!

Humble Is Truly Meek!
Meek Is Truly Humble!
They Are Taught Of God
AND
In Daily Life
They Do Not Stumble!

Pride Inspires Envy!
Envy Displays Pride!
Truth Is Their Nemesis
AND
Their Hatred Of Him 

They Do Not Hide!

Love Is Faithful!
Faithful Is Love!
Love Combines With Faith
In Loving Faithfulness
AND
Peace Is Their Portion
No Matter If Their Life To Onlookers

Seems Perfectly Graceless!

Life Is Not Just For Living
AND
Living Is Not Just For Eating! 

Eating Is For Strength

AND
Not For Drunkenness

Because
Drunkenness In All Its Forms
Leads All Men To Destructive Excess!

Confession Is Good For The Soul!
Repentance For The Soul Is A Blessing!

AND

Acknowledging Wrong Is Laudable
As Opposed To Continuing Willfully In Sin
Which Is The Act Laughable!

Adding One And One
AND
Getting The Answer Two Is Predictable!
Repeatedly Adding Wrong To Wrong
AND
Going For Answer Right
Is Madness
AND
To The Devil
That Wasteful Pursuit
Is 

To His Heart A Perfect Delight!

Measure Twice!
Cut Once!
Is The Needle-Worker's Mantra!

AND
Prayer Ever!
Sin Never!
Leads The Christian Safely Home
Where Jesus Christ's Peace Lives 

For Ever And Ever!

Live! Love!

Laugh! Pray!
Bless Almighty God
AND
Do What He Says!

Be Truly Obedient
AND
Obediently Worship Him True
AND
Trust Him With Your Life And Living
Because
He Gave His Life
To Bless And To Prosper
Both Me And You!

HAPPY SABBATH + Cat's Miaow To Dog Botsi?!?

How Does One Go From
Being The Cat's Miaow
To Living Like A Dog's Botsi
From Grazing In Green Grass
To Living Off Weed
From Walking Straight
To Living Bent
To Having Given Up Sin
BUT
Only For The Season
That Is Popularly Called Lent?!

How Do You Worship God
But Only When Convenient?
How Do You Serve God
But Only When Expedient?
How Do You Praise God
But Only When There Is An Audience
AND
Deny God 

Because To Admit It
Would Mean That You Are Subservient?!

How Can We Progress
If We Live By Excess?
How Can We Be Adjudged Innocent
By God
If We Don't Our Known Sins Confess?
How Can We Be Blessed
When We Revel In Sin's Curse
Taking Pleasure In Hope-Killing
AND
Running After The Tricked-Out Hearse?!

Let It Made Known That ...

Without Jesus Christ
Man Twice Dies

BUT
With Jesus Christ
Man Shall Surely Fly
Without Need Of Rocket Fuel
Protective Garments
AND
Telecommunications' Tools

Because

He Has Peace With The Eternal God

AND
The Eternal Crown Is The Coveted Jewel!

Please ... 

Don't Fall For Satan's Fatal Lies

AND

Eternally Die
When, Instead

By Living In Faith In Jesus Christ

- Based On The Preserved Word Of Truth -
You Will One Day Soon
Range The Open Skies!

Trust Jesus!
Bless God!
Curse The Devil!
Learn From The Holy Spirit

AND
Be Protected By Holy Angels

Because
God's Love Can Never Lie!
God's Love Will Never Die!

For Your Own Soul's Sole Salvation
Do Not Your Soul's Savior

Decry

Defy

OR
Deny!

I Am A Child Of The Living God!

I See The Living God
Above
Around
Beneath
Before Me!

I Feel The Living God

When I Utter
A Believing Child's Prayer!

I Touch The Living God
When In Faith
I See To The Needs Of Another

AND

Daily Communicate With Him In Prayer!

I Walk With The Living God
Because
He Is To My Heart
My Soul
My Mind
My Being
Wonderfully Gloriously Dear!

I Live For The Living God

For He Is My All And All

My Creator

My Sustainer 

My Provider

My Salvation 

My Peace

My Rest

My Way

My Light

My Redemption

My Beginning

AND

My End!

I Taste Daily Of The Living God

In His Eternal Living Word

Which Is Food And Life

AND

A Delight To My Soul

AND

Not Empty Fillers As Sugared Candy

Necessary To The Sinful Bold!

I Bless The Living God

Because

I Am A Daily Recipient Of

His Matchless Grace 

AND

Free Mercy

AND ALSO BECAUSE

Without Him To Be My Guide

I Would Be Fit And Tied Prey

For The One Who Did To Eve Lie!

Bottom Line ...

I Am A Child Of The Living God

The King Eternal

AND

The Lord Of Glory

AND

I Believe

Trust 

Hope In

Worship

Honor

Wait For

AND 

Obey Him

Because I Love The Living God

AND

I Hold Him In Godly Fear!

What Say YOU?!

THANKS GIVING: How Would You Feel...?!

Dear Ones,

The Reason That There Are So MANY VERSES In The Bible 
Regarding Asking For Gifts 
AND 
Thanksgiving For Benefits Received
Is
To Remind Us 
To Remember 
Our Manners!

Think For Yourself:

How Would You Feel About A Child 
Whose Voice Only Extended To Cover Two Things :

"Give Me ...!"

AND

"I Want ...!"

How Would You Feel About A Child 
Who Ignores Your Rules 
AND
Directions 
But
ALWAYS 
Has A Hand In Your Wallet Or Pocket!

How Would You Feel About A Child 
Who Never 
Humbly Asked 
For Anything 
BUT
Always Aggressively 
Presumptuously 
DEMANDS
That You Provide For Him Her
BUT
Is NEVER Willing 
To Go On Even The Smallest Errand For You!

How Would You Feel About 
Your Child 
Who Never Blesses Your Faithful Giving 
BUT
Who Curses You 
For Not Giving Into Their Very Often 
Foolish 
AND
Dangerous
Wants?

How Would You Really Feel About 
The God Who Gives His Children
Only 
Party Food And Favors 
BUT
Never Life-Sustaining Food?

How Would You Honestly Feel About 
The God Who Would Give 
A Growing Child 
A Homestead In Candy Land 
With The Stipulation That 
That Child Never Go To 
Vegetable Village
Nor To 
Wise Water-Ways
Nor To 
Heaven-Sent Glades?

Think On This:

The Very God Who Desires
To Hear Our Humble Prayers 
AND 
Petitions
IS
The Very Same God
Who Desires To Hear
Our Glorious Praise 
AND
Joyful Words Of Thanksgiving 
Before
When 
AND
After 
He Blesses Us
With The Desires Of Our Hearts!

Almighty God
Is Also
The Same God
Who Desires To Hear Us Say:

"Thank You, Father!"

For His Saving Grace
Protecting Us
From Making The Biggest Mistakes
Of Our Lives
By His Withholding
That Which Was Not
To Our Blessing!

When We Request A Favor
From A Friend
Do We Not Say:

"Thanks ... In Advance!"

Is Not The Living God

Worth Much More

Than This!

Lest We Forget ...

In Highest Gratitude
We Should Also "Throw In!" 
A Little Something Extra Each
For The Blessings Of:

• Food
• Shelter
• Clothing
• Life
• Love
• Health
• Wealth
• Friends
• Family
• Trees
• Grass
• Air
• Sunshine
• Rain
• Exercise
• Peace
• Rest
• Belief
• Blessing
• Faith
• Living Hope
• Hope For Glory
• Etc., etc..

Saying "Thank You!" 
To Our Holy God 

AND

Praising Him 
For His Blessings Toward Us 

CANNOT 

Diminish Us 
In Neither 

Our Eyes Nor His! 

Praise Costs Us Nothing 

AND

Blesses Us Mightily 

In The Realm Of The Great Unknown!

Heaven's 
Unspeakable Glories 
Await!

Let Us Practice 
Our Praising
The Almighty God
For His Glorious Bounties
To Us

From 
All Like NOW!!

Thoughts of God's Love ...

I had Me a Think about God's Love - again - and - again - I am Glad that God has The Job and I do not! 

Mankind is unkind

Mankind destroys and then whines

Mankind is ungrateful

And treats God as they would a wild vine!

So, with that being said, let Me ask Us ...

Why?

Why what?

Why does God Omnipotent, God The Omniscient, God The King Omnipresent, Creator of The Universe, i.e, Heaven and Earth, tolerate us?

Why didn't God just destroy Sinful Man and Corrupt Earth - all with Finality - and Create a Brand New Earth from Scratch, and a Brand New Man from The New-Made Earth?

When we Answer these Questions, we will then Understand why We Should Reverence God.

Couldn't God have make a New Earth?
With ease!

Couldn't God have made a New Man?
Certainly, and with Pleasure, I'm sure!

So, why didn't He?
LOVE.

LOVE!?!
LOVE.

God gives us The Clue when He States in His Word ...  

He Says He Can Never FORGET Us!

Another Clue: 

Let US make Man (He already knew who we were) in OUR Image (body appearance) AND Likeness (ready/able to accept immortality; ready to be a being of His Light).

I don't know about you, but I do not want anyone that I do not love to be like (representative of) Me, and I definitely will not have them taking care of my possessions! 

Therefore, by basis of deduction, God MUST LOVE Mankind.

Third Clue ...

Since God is LOVE, and He has Thoughts Concerning Us, it is Obvious that He LOVES US!

Let us consider that BEFORE we were Made, God had The Plan of Redemption in Place!

Does this not suggest that God was making Defective Merchandise?
Not by a long shot!

This is clearly telling us that despite our Anticipated Willfulness, and in spite of The Anticipated Sacrifice of Personal Blood, The Godhead knew us in ... LOVE!

If we look to Lucifer - another Personally Created and Crafted Individual - and his Jealousy-inspired Rebellion, and the subsequent War, and the resultant Expulsion from Heaven, we would see, again, the Answer.

LOVE.

I will venture to say that God said in His Heart: "Let My Love for My Creatures Lead them into My Light," and it is so. 

The Almighty God ALWAYS GIVES US TIME to choose to OR to choose not to be cared for, and guided, by Him.

God's Creatures will either Love Him because of WHO HE IS to them OR Hate Him because of WHO HE REFUSES TO BECOME for them.

God's Love, or The Expansiveness of God's Love, is Unknowable for a Finite Creature.

God's Love REQUIRES Choice on the part of the Creature Receiving that Love.

God's Love contains The Patience Of The Eternal.

God's Love contains God's Measurement in Eternal Time.

God's Love contains God's Blessed Hope 

Which is Measured by God's Faithfulness 

To Constantly Plead with Us Out Of His Love For Us 

UNTIL 

His Measure of Time Convinces Us to 

See, Experience, Understand and Accept 

His Love and His Way 

OR

Because of Sinful, Willful Self, Selfishness and Greed

See, Experience, Deny and Summarily Reject 

His Love and His Way as Contemptible.

In short, God's  Love IS The True Transcript of God's Character which character is showered upon us UNTIL ... The Appointed Time ... which we cannot apprehend.

There is an old expression: 

TIME IS LONGER THAN TIME!

The God Of Love 

who sheds 

The Love of God Abroad

and 

Who Made Time

but 

Who Is Not Constrained By Time 

gives 

The Time-Bound 

Time Not Measured by Man 

but by 

The Eternal God

To See and To Know and To Decide 

To Love God As Lord.

God Made Mankind 

Out Of 

His Love

In 

His Time

For 

His Pleasure!

God's Love contains His Grace
God's Love contains His Mercy
God's Love contains His Justice
God's Love contains His Hand of Provision
God's Love contains His Peace
God's Love contains His Pardon
God's Love contains His Compassion
God's Love contains His Caring, and
God's Love contains His Pathway To Our Perfection.

God's Love is Infinite
God's Love is Free
God's Love is Overflowing
God's Love is Faithful
God's Love is Truth
God's Love is Light.

God's Love Seeks after His Children.
God's Love Seals His Children from Sin and Death.
God's Love Sanctifies His Children unto Himself.
God's Love Saves His Children from That Separating Line.

God's Love Heals
God's Love Helps
God's Love Holds, and
God's Love Hands Us Hope.

God's Love Pleads
God's Love Leads
God's Love Feeds, and
God's Love IS The Steed Which Will Get Us Home.

God Gave Man 

A Free Will

and 

A Personal Choice!

Will You Exercise Your Free Will 

and 

Personal Choice

and

Bless God

and

Return His Love For You? Today?

I Have! Please Join Me!

God's Love is Costly Array

and is

Fashioned 

out of

The Holy God

The Living God

The Eternal God

The God called Man's Savior Friend

and

The God Who Will Succor His People

Until Life's Journey's End!

MARANATHA!